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Friday, April 3, 2009

Confessions Of A Common Man

-Karanpal Singh

Yet mighty faultsHave I to shareAnd who doesn’t guilt a mere.And where you a creature of mightier versatility?Yet the Paradox draws me to a trialIn the court of History of time.Where I,Versatile but a guiltStand to confess hidden evilsOf which wyverns get frightened.I and my kindHere today confess that.I worked in a taller building,Where men had shorter tempers.All of whom drove on highways broader,With viewpoints narrower.I spent more,Yet had lessBought more,And enjoyed still lesser.I had too big a houseAnd family shorter, of just three.I enjoyed more conveniencesStill, had less time.Had many “Too Great” degreesYet less common sense.O! And knowledge I had too much,But not so much judgment.More expertsAnd too more problems.Medicine abundant,Less well-being though.I multiplied my possessions,Reduced my values.

I talked too much; loved too seldom,Yet hated too often.Yes! Saint!I knew how to make a living,However, not the tact to make life.I added years to life,Not life to years.And…Yes! Oh! Let me say itI once went to moon and back,Alas! Yet Had trouble crossing street to meet new neighbour.I conquered the outer space,But left the inner space.Twice a day I cleansed my corpse,But many a twices polluted the soul.I split the atom,Yet not my Pride.

I had two incomes and four divorces,

A fancy house and a broken home.I would never forget the ages in which I lived,An age of Taller men of Shorter characters,Of Steeper profits and Shallow relationships.The Times of World-peace and Domestic Warfare.More leisure and less fun;Variant foods and scarce nutrition.

A life I won’t forget,Yet I know Saint or Yamm1 or what you are,This Erebus directs to Hell.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Notes:1.Yamm or Yamraj – In Hindu Mythology, after death, Yamraj(a sort of Death God) carries the soul to Hell or Heaven according to deeds of soul on Earth________________________________________________________________